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This Friday the sanitary measures for the completion of the Transition Test (PDT) to enter higher education, which will be carried out in January, were announced.
As indicated, to ensure sanitary protection, the PDT will be held in two groups and will open an extraordinary date for applicants who have not been able to render it due to being infected with covid-19.
In the instance, the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, pointed out that the safeguards are essential because “we are in a pandemic, we need the students who come on those days to do so with responsibility, taking strict measures of care.”
In this way, the 268 thousand applicants will be divided into two to take the test on January 4-5 and 7-8, in order to meet the demands of physical distancing and sanitation and sanitation of the premises.
Likewise, those who at the time of the surrender of the test are infected or are in a mandatory quarantine certified by the Minsal, may prove this situation to be evaluated in an extraordinary application for them, as determined by the Security Table in charge of the Application Plan of the Transition Test 2021.
The director of DEMRE, María Leonor Varas, regarding this new test stated that “now we have a curriculum that we have discussed, discussed, investigated, which has a high probability that everyone has been able to learn what we are asking.”
“This eliminates a very important source of inequality,” he added, detailing that the PDT is “a more inclusive system that values diversity and therefore recognizes different ways of proving that an applicant, an applicant, has the conditions to carry out higher education in successful way ”, he sentenced.
Meanwhile, the Undersecretary of Higher Education, Juan Eduardo Vargas, pointed out that the first group of 134 thousand people will take the test on January 4 and 5, while the rest will take it on January 7 and 8. “With this deferred application we are in strict compliance with the health security measures that the Ministry of Health has recommended to us in this joint work.”
Meanwhile, on December 23, both the place where the test will be taken will be announced, as well as the day on which the student will have to take the PDT, which can be found on the portal Acceso.mineduc.cl.
Protocol
In accordance with the provisions, young people must arrive at their premises with enough time, in order to avoid crowds and enter after the inspection of the Carabineros, who will be guarding the premises and checking that the attendees are not on the sick payroll for covid-19.
Surrender premises: For the application of the tests, more than 700 premises will be enabled throughout the country that will have to implement the health protocols prepared for this occasion.
Among them, it stands out that the rooms must have enough space to guarantee a distance of at least 1 linear meter between applicants and special rooms will be available for people with disabilities. The rooms must also have permanent natural ventilation during the performance of the tests and the venues must have differentiated entry and exit routes.
Sanitation and sanitation: Application sites will be sanitized the day before the process and the required distancing measures will be demarcated in the income and within the rooms.
Prior to the application of each test, a team of 1,400 previously trained assistants will clean and disinfect common spaces, rooms, bathrooms, etc., which will also take place between each test and at the end of each day.
Sanitary Kit: The process will consider the delivery of Sanitary Kits for the 26 thousand collaborators who will facilitate the application, which include a set of masks, disposable gloves, disinfectants, alcohol gel, disinfectant sprays, special cleaning cloths, etc.
This contemplating the time of permanence for the rendering of the tests, where the applicants they must bring their mask and a spare one, alcohol gel, graphite pencil and eraser, along with your identification card and identity card. In the event that an applicant does not arrive with the sanitary supplies, each location will have a number of replacement masks, alcohol gel, pencil and rubber.
Student entry and test application: Upon entering the premises of surrender, all persons, without exception, they should disinfect their hands with alcohol gel and follow the entry instructions, always respecting the linear meter of distance, so that the examiners can verify your identity. In each location, it will be verified that no applicant has a Positive PCR or mandatory quarantine ruled by the health authority.
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